Agave americana
Habit | cacti-succulent
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Height: | ⇕ | 17 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 17. to 50 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 50. |
Width: | ⇔ | 12 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12. |
Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
Bloom: | ❀ | early summer, mid summer, late summer |
Exposure: | ☼ | sun, part-sun |
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Water: | ◍ | moderate, dry |
Features: | ✓ | evergreen, flowers, foliage, drought tolerant |
USDA Zones: | 8 to 11 | |
Sunset Zones: | 10, 12-30 | |
Flower features: | ❀ | orange, yellow |
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Read about Agave americana in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Agave americana, Linn. (A. altlssima, Zumag. A. europaea, Vis. A. ramosa, Moench. A. spectabilis, Salisb.). Lvs. lanceolate, 6-8 x 60-80 in., smooth, gray, ascending with outcurved ends, with rather short and stout recurved round-grooved very shortly decurrent spine obliquely flattened at base, and moderately large gray prickles on prominent marginal elevations: infl. 20-30 ft., rather slender; fls. 2 1/2-2 3/4 in.; ovary 1 1/4 in., segm. 1 in., tube 1/2 in. Mex.(?). Established around the Medit.—The plant more commonly cult. in this country as A. americana has narrower, more hooked lvs., as in the next, but grayer and with the short recurved spine scarcely decurrent and round at base, var. Milleri, Baker (A. Milleri, Haw.? A. virginia, Mill.? A. laetevirens and A. americana laetevirens, Hort.?) Variegated forms of this, frequently grown, are var. margínata in yellow- or white-margined forms, var. striata variously lined with yellow or white, and var. medio-picta with a broad median yellow band. Wiesner Festschr., pl. 6. A reputed hybrid between A. americana and A. densiflora is x A. massiliensis. Hort. Deleuil.
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Agave americana var. 'americana'
Agave americana cv. 'Medio-Picta'
References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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